How can I reuse or recycle … jewellery boxes?

On a shelf in our bedroom, I have a little collection of jewellery boxes.

My jewellery tends to be on the cheap (and/or home-made) kind but every now and then, I get something in a box – either a proper padded ring or earring box, or just a fancy cardboard one.

Given the cheapness of the items (and my laziness), I rarely use the boxes after I’ve got them (as I’ve got a proper jewellery box and a tray to fling cheap bracelets into) but as always, I’m reluctant to throw the little boxes away.

Any suggestions for reuses that would take advantage of the padding? Or do any charities collect them for reuse?

22 Responses to “How can I reuse or recycle … jewellery boxes?”

This sounds horrible, but I was trying to come up with an obvious way to recycle these and thought… well, they’re heavy little buggers, what do you do with heavy little things? Put a bunch of them in a sock and make a weapon! : D

Paint them and maybe decorate them with little things like old postage stamps or photographs and reuse them as gift boxes. Since they’ve been decorated there is no need to wrap the present and waste paper.

I have a lot of old jewellary but it is not precious metals but the sort of stuff you get from markets and bourtiques, cheap and colourful. Earrings, necklaces, bracelets and fittings etc. Are they of any use to anyone who likes to make their own jewellary before I chuck it out. Sianee.

I color them in with sharpie and different things and use them as decorating items. Like if you have 12 boxes stick them all together in a square shape to make a 4 by 4 photo frame. its actually look really pretty because jewelry boxes are made to look pretty. And if they are white just stick them together in a line and write some sort of inspirational quote on it to jazz up your room. Well it depends if your like the modern type of person or if you like antiques. But I guess you can do anything with it by just changing the colors. I also cut the sides of the case and glue all the cases together to make one big long case for really anything like pens and stuff. And if you wear glasses than just make it a fancy case for your glasses.

It’s actually pretty fun when you come up with these things and it makes you feel all happy because your being creative at the same time. it’s not really something to stress out about but something to expnad your imagination for. Well….that’s what I do.